Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 3503 Blood Dance (I)

Starlings can be seen in many places in Europe, especially at sunset, when they fly in groups of up to tens of thousands, looking like dark clouds.

Starlings are insectivorous birds that catch many insects every day. Forest rangers will hang starling nesting boxes on trees so that starlings can come and settle down and help humans eliminate pests.

There is a kind of bird called the Augurey Bird. They eat large insects and fairies, but they usually live in thorn bushes and only come out to hunt when it rains.

In fact, they will fly when the weather is good, mainly because the fairies are too fast. After the rain wets their wings, birds like Augurey, which fly relatively slowly, will be easier to prey on, especially in the rainy winter in the UK, so they never stop howling.

Just because of some superstition, the sound of the divination bird indicates death, so wizards avoid the divination bird.

Filch got a dozen or so Augureys from somewhere and put them in cages. Perhaps because they smelled the scent of their natural enemies, the vixens did not come to the cellar, and Filch himself was fully armed, dressed like Doctor Bird.

"What's going on?" Pomona asked.

"It was Professor Grubbly-Plank's idea," Filch's voice sounded muffled through his mask. "She told me to put them here."

"That's a great idea. How about placing Augureys at the gates of other colleges?" Pomona asked.

"I was only following orders," said Filch, and left the cellar with Mrs. Norris, who was also wearing protective gear.

Fairies look very much like the "fairies" in Muggle fairy tales, with beautiful wings and the ability to use magic wands. Although their magic power is not strong, they can resist predators such as Auguries.

This doesn't mean defeating the Augurey Bird, but blocking it. After all, the size difference between them is too great.

Few people would keep a augury as a pet unless they enjoyed solitude, but Scamander had a nest of them.

Pomona looked at the skinny birds with sympathy and then went back to his office to write a notice.

In the future, if students catch foxes, they can feed them to the divination birds, but they must not use pesticides.

Another thing is that you can't feed them too much. She is afraid that the birds will become round like the Golden Snidget, and then they will fly even slower.

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Since Scamander was not in the UK, he was not seen at Lockhart's new book launch, but everyone was used to it. This famous "weirdo" preferred to be with his animals.

He has a Bowtruckle as a friend. Although Bowtruckles move relatively slowly compared to insects, they seem to have some properties that allow them to open any door lock, making them the favorites of thieves.

Scamander once agreed to "sell" his Bowtruckle friend to a goblin, and then the goblin's underground bar was "raided" by Macusa's agents. Scamander took this opportunity to rescue Bowtruckle.

Scamander offered other "goods" to the goblin, but the goblin didn't like anything else and only wanted the Bowtruckle. If Scamander didn't give it to him, he would not provide any information.

Scamander's Boggart is a desk, which has been a running joke for years.

Perhaps it wasn't the table itself that Scamander was afraid of.

Giger took Pomona to the event just for socializing. Her deepest impression of the press conference was that there was too much blood-red food. She went back without even eating enough. After returning to school, she went to the kitchen for another meal.

Georgiana put down her glass. There was other food in the Villa Melzi. He was more generous than Bonaparte in this respect. There were no snacks that were everywhere in the old court, either in the Tuileries or the Grand Trianon, except for Mozart chocolate, this "Austrian candy".

Because of the results of the US census, the North would win regardless of whether the South participated in the vote or not. Between prohibition and anti-slavery, the federal government chose anti-slavery, and liquor taxes were also an important source of income at the time.

Without slavery, not only the cotton plantations in the South, but also the British agricultural aristocracy lost in the competition with the emerging industrialists. The reform of the Corn Law also opened up food imports. If the United States could not provide food because of the war, new food suppliers would be needed.

India can also provide food, but it also needs to provide cotton. If grain planting is expanded, cotton will be affected.

The mountainous geographical environment of Piedmont makes it impossible to produce grain like the plains, but it can grow mulberry trees and corn. The high yield of corn can make up for the reduction in grain-growing area due to the expansion of mulberry trees, which also leads to an increase in niacin deficiency.

Fewer mulberry trees means less silk, and less silk means that Lyon's machines cannot operate. Without machines, workers will not have wages, and without wages, they will not be able to afford bread.

The area is close to the former Savoy, Nice, and transport routes to Italy.

She had never told Severus about her attendance at the press conference, and no one knew the beautiful woman who accompanied Jig.

In fact, there are many living people pursuing Jiger, even though he is old.

The "ideal" one would of course be someone as "young and strong" and handsome as Lucius Malfoy, but Malfoy was accompanied by Narcissa, who behaved elegantly and reservedly from beginning to end, or in other words, was not happy at all.

It's not surprising to see leaves in the forest. There was an interior designer of the Smith family who was very interested in Severus. She talked to the chubby Pomona about the "fallen leaves" pattern.

For a while, Brutalist architecture and decoration style was very popular among Muggles. It is characterized by bold and warm colors, and uses many geometric elements to create a balance in the space in a bold and warm atmosphere.

The "falling leaves" pattern is not really a replica of leaves, but an orange and red diamond pattern that resembles autumn leaves. Miss Smith calls this pattern a "marriage" of three and four.

She had no idea why Miss Smith had said this to her, but she decided to use it as inspiration for the design of the floor of the French Ministry of Magic.

The trees that were made into cabinets were still alive, but she believed that most normal people would not think so. Even if a tree was alive, it should still be lush and green.

The family genealogy of pure-blood wizards is often in the shape of a tree. The tapestries of the Black family can theoretically be placed in those cabinets. Their family emblem also has the words "Forever Pure" written in French.

Even if the direct lineage is cut off, the side branches are still there, saying that their family tree is dead...

She should have noticed then that the cabinets in the French Ministry that Scamander remembered had ornate metal frames, but she hadn't thought of it that way at the time.

The Firebolt that Sirius gave Harry was made of goblin silver. It was useful, but the broom was too expensive.

How much magic silver is on that small broom? And the magic silver on those cabinets is enough to make many flying brooms with just one.

She couldn't imagine how much money that would cost, much less whether the goblins would feel shortchanged and try to take over the French Ministry of Magic.

Percival, one of Isidora's teachers and Albus Dumbledore's ancestor, was one of the founders of Gringotts. A goblin rebellion broke out at that time. Humans won and achieved peace by signing a treaty, but the goblins lost the qualification to own wands.

What if the goblins asked the school to "pay" for Isidora and give the school to them?

This is of course impossible, the motto of Gringotts is forties quo fidelius, which means "loyalty produces strength" in Latin. Without sufficient strength support, it would be difficult for Gringotts, which looks crooked and completely inconsistent with architectural mechanics, to stand firm.

In short, this issue has come to an end for now. No matter how much consideration the predecessors put into building the bridge, accidents will always happen. While the future generations enjoy the benefits of the previous generations, they must also maintain the bridge.

It’s hard to predict what will happen in the future. How much fun would it be lost if everything was “spoiled”?

(End of this chapter)